<div dir="ltr">I had the same issue with the DFD and UCD for one of the programming outcomes. <div>The restaurant customer would be an obvious actor/external entity in a system that takes meal orders.</div><div style>However since the waiter is the one interacting with the system, and the customer is interacting with the waiter, the customer does not appear at all in the system representation.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Sometimes what seems logical is not as it first appears.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 February 2013 13:14, Simone Tynan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Simone.Tynan@shcy.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">Simone.Tynan@shcy.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I am having trouble with aspects of a DFD.</div><div><br>
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<div>I have a DFD and context diagram in which shows a customer orders a service and it is quoted and carried out.</div><div><br></div><div>Similar scenario, except the service is being carried out for a beneficiary. (Think Ninja and assassins. ;-) )</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Customer is providing all details and payments. The beneficiary is not actually adding to or receiving from the system (that I can see).</div><div><br></div><div>Are they still added as an external entity? Is there any connection between them and the system?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Many thanks for any input/<br><div>
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